With each year that goes by, I am further inclined to withdraw from society. Culture degrades, interactions with the general public is abhorrent, and the view that humans are a scourge upon this planet is clearer than ever. A global purge is the only answer now.
It's funny watching culture degrade so much that we're forced to cling onto the mediocre vestiges of recent past like aboriginal Celts praying to their forest gods to remedy the ever more dwindling trickle of water from ramshackle Roman aqueducts long abandoned by their creators.
Imagine what it's like to be a character in a revived sitcom. You go from being vaguely in your late 20s with a haphazard little peer group of jokesters to... being in your late 40s with the exact same people in your life. Working the exact same job. Living in the same place. Older. Saggier. Uglier yet contorted into a freakish plastic surgery hair plug version of yourself.
Your contemporary role model? Now they're pushing towards a geriatric age, still forced to play father figure to your grown-ass despite you being old enough to have kids of your own.
The kindred spiritual completion of your show's final season? A brief stint of euphoria before you get sucked back into a purgatory of buffoonery, the subsequent decade or two of your life being a fever dream to be forgotten as you return right back to where you started.
Your life, your past, your world, meaningless. A hiatus to be discarded by the forces which control your universe, a temporary scrap of refuse meant to be the thread between two identical stages of your life.
At least soap operas have the dignity of continual production throughout the decades, their actors aging with their characters across multigenerational character arcs. You don't get to end a show just to bring it back, it's extremely disturbing. The viewer perceives no real timebreak between shows, just an abrupt shift to decay.
What would it be like to be these people in real life? Stuck doing the same exact thing, wearing the same clothes, living the same life, working the same job, surrounded by the exact same people for 20 years straight?
This is called stagnation. Plenty of people do this in real life, and we view with a fearful dismay. We dread the idea of becoming them and we avoid the places they live, stillwater shithole hamlets and dead end towns in between nowhere. The stagnant don't smirk and guffaw with quirky music backgrounds, they abuse methamphetamine and get pushed out of the job market by illegal immigrants. They sustain the livelihoods of gas station owners and you have the opportunity to steal a dollar out of every one of their pockets if you ever win a lottery.
Scrubs does not need to be revived, it was a cringe show to begin with, barely watchable and slightly amusing to the adolescent minds of a generation not yet fully raped by cell phones. Its revival now stands as a grim parody of itself, haunting viewers with the reminder that time is ruthless even to the wealthy and famous, and that death follows you slowly with no hope of circumvention.
Until that time comes, I hope for a great cataclysm to replace desires with needs, preference with prerogative. Soon society will know hunger and anguish, and through the iron rod of necessity, culture will vitalize within the cracks of imperfection as it always does. Experiences will be forced upon the pudgy and sallow. Stories will be drawn from vivid memories of real life experiences, not the regurgitation of media spiraling into metareferential barblenosh.
Enjoy your slop.
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Investing time and effort to initiate and subsequently maintain new relationships is not worth it anymore. Even the old ones become stale and deserve pruning. The act of severance and state of isolation that follows is cathartic.
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